COURSE DESCRIPTION 2012 2013

Prof. Kate Nace Day,

2 credits day; 2 credits evening.

The seminar will trace the movement of women's rights from national to international law to identify the features of a women's model of human rights: what women need to become fully human, what women's resistance to male dominance has already achieved, and what promise remains unfulfilled. It will examine the gendered dimensions of national behavior through law, including the distinction of public and private, naturalizing dominance as difference, obscuring coercion as consent, and hiding sexual politics behind morality. It contrasts American law with Canada's substantive equality and South Africa's transformative equality, Sweden's model of decriminalizing the women in prostitution, the promise of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the inspiration and lessons from Bosnia and Rwanda. Specific topics may include femicide, rape as genocide and spectacle, sexual violence in post-conflict situations, sex trafficking in women and girl children, pornography and sexual harassment in the workplace and schools, reproductive autonomy, missing girls, and honor killings. Final grade is based upon an independent project and in-class participation.

Elective Course

On List of Recommended Perspectives Courses

Meets International Law Concentration Requirements

Final Project Required

LLM Course

International Intellectual Property